Pharmaceutical Drug Industry Tactics

Vaccines are made with powerfully toxic materials including metals, embalming fluid, and gelatins from butchered animals. Prescription drugs are developed using chemicals that pollute your body. They work by suppressing the normal functions of the body and can damage your liver and...

Pharmaceutical drugs are man made, synthesized from chemicals that pollute your body and inhibit normal health including proper immune system functioning. Pharmaceutical drugs create problems as an aside to "working" on what you bought them for. Some of the possible side effects are excessive weight gain, constipation symptoms...

To hear the drug companies tell it, in this time of national crisis, they’ve been as patriotic as Patrick Henry, as generous as Andrew Carnegie, and as selfless as Mother Teresa. Which would be true if Patrick Henry had proclaimed, “Give me liberty or give me profits!,” Mother...

Sunday Herald For the past 40 years Professor David Horrobin has been developing new medicines. In 1977 he founded Scotia Holdings, which was once one of Scotland's most promising biotechnology firms. But today, as the drug company boss is dying of cancer, he has decided to expose...

The sordid behavior of today's pharmaceutical corporations has been further demonstrated by Dr John Braithwaite, now a Trade Practices Commissioner, in his devastating expose, CORPORATE CRIME IN THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY (1) (1984). International bribery and corruption, fraud in the testing of drugs, criminal negligence in the...

THE ROCKETING COST OF HEALTH CARE "Medical 'ignorance' is costing us billions" reads a heading in the Daily Telegraph Mirror of February 24, 1991, over an article: " Poor funding and a lack of knowledge about preventive medicine has led to a $2 billion blow-out in public health...

Last spring, hundreds of people in Florida opened their mailboxes and found, in and among the junk mail and bills, padded envelopes full of powerful prescription drugs. Each package contained a one-month starter supply of Prozac Weekly, a new anti-depressant made by pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly. None of the...

In the face of ever-mounting evidence of the dangers of the psychiatric drug Prozac, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has balked at moving against the antidepressant which has accumulated more adverse reaction reports than any other substance in the 24-year history of the FDA's adverse drug reaction...

A senior executive with Britain's biggest drugs company has admitted that most prescription medicines do not work on most people who take them. Allen Roses, worldwide vice-president of genetics at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), said fewer than half of the patients prescribed some of the most expensive drugs actually...

by Antony Barnett, public affairs editor The Observer Pharmaceutical giants hire ghostwriters to produce articles - then put doctors' names on them Hundreds of articles in medical journals claiming to be written by academics or doctors have been penned by ghostwriters in the pay of...

I was raised in a house filled with drug-industry trinkets. My father has been a family doctor for more than 40 years, and drug representatives bearing gifts have visited him throughout his career. My brothers and I grew up tossing Abbott Frisbees and Upjohn Nerf balls. We took...